The "People Power" Education Superbook Book 40. Government Guide, Government Job Guide (Federal-State-County-Municipal-World Government Websites, Government Sales-Grants- Jobs, Canadian Government)

The government is huge as the primary decision-maker and economic power of any country, province, state, county, city, town or village but there are no books offering basic, generic government information except for a few big ones by Gale Group (gale.com) and other reference book publishers selling for hundreds of dollars each.

This is a resource book with some explanations in it but that's not the priority. The priority is resources.

firstgov.gov is the federal government network.

For information on the web about any state government department, use the following formula:

state.two letter abbreviation.us, for example:
state.al.us for Alabama.

Look for the department you're interested in.

Another one is the name of the state followed by .gov, .org, .net and .com like hawaii.gov, hawaii.org, etc.

For most government information, look through your local phonebook in four separate government sections:

Municipal.
County.
State.
Federal.

Government books at the library are as follows:

350. Public Administration.
351. Central governments.
352. Local governments.
353. U.S. federal and state governments.
354. Other central governments.
355. Military administration.
356. Foot forces, army, marines, etc.
357. Mounted forces.
358. Armored, technical, air, space.
359. Navy.

For the Library of Congress System, try G7212 at the library.


Volume 1. American Government Websites

Chapter 1. United States Government Info 1

U.S. Government Introduction

To navigate the system, the main book is the U.S. Government Manual, a complete guide to all departments, agencies and offices of the federal government.

You can buy one at one of the 24 U.S. government bookstores located around the country or you can look it over at the library or the Federal Information Center (fic.info.gov) nearest to you.

Try your local library or Superintendent of Documents (gpo.gov/su_docs) for smaller telephone directories.

Books about the federal government are located at #353 of your local library.

Generally, if you're not sure of where to go, just use your common sense and contact the relevant department for directions and general information, for example, the Department of Commerce for business, Department of State for information about different countries, Environmental Protection Agency for hazardous wastes and the National Institute For Health for medical matters.